SITREP (In tribute to today's debut of Ingress Report)

//Ingress Situation Report\\
//..13.03.26..1700hr
The Resistance have constructed a strong farm in the Mission District.  Suggest deployment via BART to drop coordinates: N 37° 45.126 W 122° 25.098 (10S E 551243 N 4178469)\\
I arrived battle ready at 24th and Mission station, equipped with my Ingress scanner application and a fully charged battery.  I set out to collect supplies from the vast amount of Level 6-Level 7 portals in the area between Harrison Street and San Jose Ave.  I proceeded to farm the 24th Street portals until I burned them out of supplies and then zigzagged along the same route until I had hit virtually all of the portals between 16th and 24th streets in that area.
I even ran into a fellow Resistance agent, donodog who wasn't active at the time but cheered me on and shared resonator placement with LadyTsa, who I didn't see but assisted in capturing three portals on Folsom Street.
By 1900hrs, I considered my operation a success and closed the portal scanner for the night over 20000AP higher and with a much larger inventory than two hours before.
//END REPORT\\

Chrome Dead Drop

During lunch, the Niantic Project Google+ account posted about their operative finding NIA dead drops at Chrome bags stores.  We happen to have a local Chrome store in San Francisco.

My only issue with going in to the city was that I hadn't worn a jacket to lunch. 

There was a Burlington Coat Factory on the way back to the car.  After what felt like days but was really just minutes of looking, I found the perfect blue trimmed all weather New Balance running jacket in my size at a reduced price of $16.98.  I bought it.

Our friend and I hopped on BART.  He headed home.  I headed to Powell Street station where I took a nice walk across town past Hotel Utah to Chrome SF.

The people inside were very helpful.  They didn't have the faction patches advertised on the Niantic Project post but they did have the dead drops.  I ended up with a leftover DroneNet code from SXSW.  I also captured their portal for good measure.

After visiting Chrome, I hacked and captured Ingress portals for a while and eventually met my wife at San Francisco Centre for a quick dinner before heading up the giant hill that Mason Street becomes for a concert at the Fairmont's Venetian Room.  I captured the Fairmont portal for good measure while there.

Ingress Adventure: Colma Cemeteries

We woke up early this morning and my wife dropped me off at the entrance to the Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma.  I met up with three other Ingress Resistance agents (pokeysrevenge, Aleckazam and Allissasaurus) and provided airdrop support, destroying Enlightened resonators on 16 portals in a few cemeteries   I helped two agents move up from Level 3 to Level 4 and created a pop up Level 5 portal farm, which I then proceeded to "burn out" on resources before Marloniusfunk, an Enlightened agent came through and took it back again for his green team.  Maybe I'll go through on my own next time, because the "adventure" was mostly me walking around and having fun and the other three agents getting into their car and driving to each portal individually and getting most of the points!

I don't need Ingress points anymore, I'm having fun now that I'm Level 7 and not playing "full time" to try to get further in the game.  Level 8 is far too far away to try to get there at the pace I was playing prior to hitting Level 7.

Level 7 when The Fat Lady sings!

We had tickets to see BB King in concert at the Fox Theatre in Oakland.  I got there around six and played a bit of Ingress before going to Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe for dinner. 

My wife still wasn't nearby when I left so I played a bit more Ingress before meeting her by the Fox Den lounge and walking her dinner to the car before heading in to the venue.

After the show, we headed to the car and I took over the Greyhound Bus Station Ingress portal while my wife ate some of her dinner.
We headed to Jack London Square's Yoshi's location after that and caught a set from the Daniel Fabricant Trio, featuring Dan, Dina Maccabee and Rob Reich in the lounge.  It was great to hear the three of them and a nice surprise.
I noticed that Jack London Square had been taken over by the opposition in Ingress and decided to use the portal at The Fat Lady bar to level up.  I hit Level 7 and the fat lady sang, but my screen capture video sadly crashed while it was happening.

Farming at Civic Center

I spent the evening farming for Ingress supplies in San Francisco's Civic Center, discovering an organic foods market and a building with awesome murals painted along the sides of it somewhere on 9th Street.  I left Civic Center less than 14,000 points away from turning Level 7 and started to plot out how I would reach that with some form of memorable fanfare.

First Portal Submission in Game!

We visited Fremont Hub in the afternoon and I hacked the high level portal in the coach house that was in the parking lot of the shopping center while my wife snapped some pictures inside the Nothing Bundt Cakes shop.

We went to Sprouts Market and got some almond butter and Jamba Juice, where I hacked the portal and captured it for the Resistance.

After a brief visit to Goodwill, we took a rather long way home, going to Berkeley so that I could confirm that my portal submission of the Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse complete with Vienna Teng marquee was indeed in Ingress.  I took the liberty of capturing it and taking screenshots before we left.  We stopped by Ashby Stage and I submitted it with the marquee for The Fourth Messenger.  I hope that one gets accepted as well!

Ingress in the Mission

I decided that it was warm enough outside to take the walk to Tartine bakery and see Dina Maccabee, Lisa Mezzacappa and Diana Strong play while enjoying some tea and maybe a dessert.  I plotted out a course that would allow me to play some Ingress along the way and hopefully get me there before 6:30.

The Ingress gameplay got me to Powell Street and I had to take BART the rest of the way to the Mission.   After getting there, I took a bit of a wrong turn, but not so much, and ended up on Valencia and not Guerrero, wondering where Tartine was for a moment and discovering that Clarion Alley was full of high level portals that I could hack for items. After a nice dinner and evening with a friend, I hacked the Clarion Alley portals and we headed back to BART.  It was a fun and random Friday night.